Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bodycount
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About the Author Kevin Eastman (1962) is the co-creator, with Peter Laird, of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a pop-culture juggernaut that appeared in 1984 and has since spawned four animated television series, six feature films, countless toys, and numerous comic-book series, the most recent of which is published by IDW and is the longest-running to date. Kevin lives in San Diego with his wife and son. Read more
Reviews
As a fan of the TMNT, when I had first read about this comic by Eastman and Bisley in the TMNT Ultimate Visual History book, I was thoroughly intrigued. I soon after searched Amazon to find a copy of it, but no such luck. A couple years later, I saw this new hardcover version available, and I had to get it.Then the book arrived... ok, maybe the art style isn't quite what I prefer, I can get beyond that, as it is still good enough if... If there is enough text to explain what is going on. When you initially start the book, if feels like you have missed something, some initial narration somewhere to let the reader in on just some basic idea of what was going on would have been nice. So I went to the back of the book hoping for something to latch onto. Thankfully there was some info, but not much storyline wise: Midnight, the female protagonist, was being chased by an antagonist Johnny Woo Woo, who is her brother.By the end of reading the book, which was a struggle, for I always felt a bit lost and confused, I think I had some semblance of what was going on. I feel like this comic was a case of the writer and illustrator knowing what was going on, but to an outsider, there wasn't enough info to let them in on the whole story. Simply just more dialogue would have helped to direct the story. It felt like they were trying to turn an action gunfight movie into a comic, but to do that effectively, more text and panels of pictures would have been needed. Sometimes, the next picture zooms in too closely and you aren't sure who or what exactly is going on, i.e. who is shooting who.I wanted to like this book, I wanted to love this book, but I just couldn't. The premise of the comic was good, but dialogue and narration were severely lacking. Granted you don't always need lots of dialogue if the scenes are drawn right, such as in the original TMNT comic one-series micro-shot of Leonardo by Eastman and Laird, or many stories in Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo epic comic. This story could have been great, if only there was a little more help with layouts and storyline, if Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley want to try this again, I suggest asking Peter Laird or Stan Sakai to help give them a little more direction, a candle in the darkness, to shed some light on a dark story.The pictures were interesting, gory for sure, well endowed females and gruesome looking characters, fitting of the Heavy Metal magazine style. A little extra grit to a turtle story, oh yeah Casey Jones and Raph are here, but I felt like they were side characters here, heavily steroid-ed up versions of themselves. I thought it was going to be more about them, but they just ended up in the crossfire of someone else's battle and got dragged into it.As a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan, I had to find out what this was like. I could either recommend it or not (I would lean towards not), but any TMNT Fan out there knows, you'll ignore what others say and take a look for themselves.